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A well-known scientist & a Nobel Prize winner Mario Molina passes away

October 9, 2020
Mario Molina
  • A well-known scientist & a Nobel Prize winner Mario Molina passed away recently.
  • He shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Frank Sherwood Rowland of the United States (US) and Paul Crutzen of the Netherlands for their 1970 research on the damage to the Ozone layer.

India’s First Anti-Radiation Missile named Rudram 1 successfully tested

October 9, 2020
Rudram 1
  • India’s First Anti-Radiation Missile named Rudram 1 successfully tested. This Missile is Developed by DRDO and it is a new generation anti-radiation missile.

Bishr al-Khasawneh appointed as the new PM of Jordan

October 9, 2020
Bishr al-Khasawneh
  • Bishr al-Khasawneh has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of Jordan. His appointment was approved by the King of Jordan, Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein.

AMFI re-elected Nilesh Shah as its Chairman

October 9, 2020
Nilesh Shah
  • Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) has re-elected Nilesh Shah as its Chairman. He was earlier elected as the Chairman for 2019 – 2020.

Poet Nityananda Nayak to receive Sarala Puraskar

October 9, 2020
Sarala Puraskar
  • Nityanand Nayak will be conferred the prestigious Sarala Puraskar for his poetry work ‘Setebelaku Nathiba’ which was published in 2017. The poet will be felicitated with a cash award of `5 lakh and a citation.
  • For the contribution to fields of music and art, Ranjit Kumar Nag and Shyamsundar Pattanaik will be felicitated.

2020 Nobel Prize in Peace announced

October 9, 2020
Nobel Prize 2020
  • The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 to the World Food Programme (WFP) which is the world’s largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.

Nobel Prize in Literature, 2020

October 9, 2020
Nobel Prize in Literature
  • The first female poet to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since Wislawa Szymborska in 1996 is Louise Gluck for her poetry. Other women who have received the prize in the literature category were all writers and not poets.

Other winners of 2020 Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2020 was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna for “Development of a method for Genome Editing”.
  • The Nobel Prize, 2020 for Physics has been awarded to Andrea M Ghez, Roger Penrose and Reinhard Genzel for their research on black holes. They discovered the existence of a supergiant black hole in the centre of Milky Way.
  • The Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology has been jointly awarded to Harvey J Alter, Charles M Rice and Michael Houhgton. The prize was awarded for the discovery of Hepatitis C.

Amazon India partnered with IRCTC to start online train ticket bookings

October 9, 2020
amazon and railways
  • Amazon India has partnered with ‘Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation’ (IRCTC), to provide its customers with the facility to book reserved train tickets on Amazon.

Meghalaya Govt & Israel agreed to set up ‘Centre of Excellence’

October 9, 2020
India and Israel
  • Meghalaya government has entered into a partnership with Israel with an aim to establish a one of a kind Centre of Excellence(CoE) on high-value vegetables in the state that will improve and promote the livelihoods of farmers.

World Bank: India’s GDP to contract by 9.6% in FY-21

October 9, 2020
World Bank
  • The World Bank projected India’s GDP to contract by 9.6% this FY-21 in its latest report titled ‘South Asia Economic Focus’.
  • The World Bank earlier in June had estimated the Indian economy to shrink by 3.2% in the current fiscal.